Can economics save the world? (with Erik Angner)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We all want to live happier, more fulfilling lives and build a better future for ourselves, but can economics help to make that dream a reality? Economist and philosopher Erik Angner is so confident that economics can save the world that he wrote a whole book about it. Erik helps Nick and Goldy overcome their usual cynicism by pointing out all the amazing progress that has been made in the economics profession, and he explains how economics can help build an even more glorious future for everyone. Erik Angner is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, where he directs the PPE Program. He is the author of several books including A Course in Behavioral Economics and How Economics Can Save the World. Twitter: @ErikAngner How Economics Can Save the World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321644/how-economics-can-save-the-world-by-angner-erik/9780241502693 Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Economics is a profession
0:03.0	has steered the world in kind of a wrong way.
0:06.5	This is not hopeless, there are ideas out there.
0:08.6	You're claiming that economics can save the world?
0:11.0	On the one hand, I'm saying we need to take economics seriously,
0:13.7	it can help, dismissing it wholesale, it's positively harmful,
0:17.0	but I'm also saying that economics is not, in fact, as good as it could be.
0:20.7	We don't disagree, it can save the world,
0:23.6	but can and will are too entirely different.
0:26.5	Or has, yeah.
0:30.0	From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle,
0:35.8	this is Pitch Fork Economics, with Nick Hanauer,
0:39.0	the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
0:48.8	I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
0:51.8	I'm David Goldstein, senior fellow at Civic Ventures.
0:56.0	Regular listeners of Pitch Fork Economics might think that you and I
1:03.8	are a little cynical, Nick.
1:05.5	We talk a lot of smack about economics.
1:09.6	And people roll their eyes at me when I say this,
1:12.3	but actually, I think we're steeped in optimism.
1:18.0	I agree, I agree, it's a highly schizophrenic life
1:23.0	to be as angry and cynical about the field of economics as we are,
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